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After 25 years of continuous growth, we've outgrown two houses and have moved into a warehouse at 25 Nickerson Street, Seattle 98109. We held an open house August 31 inviting our local galleries, block neighbors and friends. We also rent parking in the back (24 Dravus Street). Our phone and email contacts remain the same.

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument screen print has arrived! I visited this NPS unit last fall on my 15 month centennial speaking circuit and was duly impressed. The park staff gave me a personal tour of the area and enthusiastically supported adding this to our collection of (now) 47 screen printed poster designs of our National Parks and Monuments. Modestly priced at $45. Enjoy!

As promised, we're now selling these Limited Edition prints separately. During the Centennial they were sold as a set of two for $100. As of today, we're offering your choice for $50. Note we've raised our prices slightly to $45 now so for five extra bucks--you get "EM" scratched in the seal, numbered and signed by Ranger Doug! I will also donate 25% of this to the National Park Foundation. This is a win-win.

It was a great year in 2016 for the NPS Centennial and we're looking for another one in 2017. Here's what's happening:
We're moving into a new warehouse at 25 Nickerson (also 24 Dravus) on the North Side of Queen Anne Hill, Seattle (25 Nickerson, Seattle, WA 98109) in mid-February. We will not have a retail outlet but are entertaining an occasional open house perhaps coordinated with other arts events in the community--so you can see all 50 prints in one room! Only the Department of the Interior does that!
Lisa is retiring after 18 years and Angie Bunker and her husband Todd will be taking over. Angie, like Lisa, is perfect for the job--and doesn't miss a beat!
Reluctantly, I'm raising my prices from $40 to $45 for our hand-made silk screened posters. This is still one of the best buys for screened art in the country! And it's been 18 years since the last price increase.....and we are printing up to a full 10 colors!
We've been asked by the National Park Foundation to continue our giving back policy for all products sold at REI. What started as a NPS Centennial Collection at REI will hopefully be permanent. This is above and beyond our 1%.
When a new NPS Director is appointed, I will hopefully meet with him/her and donate my private collection back to the NPS--putting it back in the public domain. This will make eleven originals available to the public. Stand by for this one!
Thank you all again for your choice of our unique screened prints. There are many others doing similar "retro" prints of our parks, but we have led the pack and will continue to do so.
Happy New Year!

Holiday Special! After a frantic and exhausting 15 month NPS Centennial year on the road, we've still several sets of the two Yellowstone Limited Edition Centennial posters left. A recent discovery of these two prints motivated me to redo the screens perfectly--adjusting the colors, a full 6 screens, including the encrypted initials "EM" embedded in the Department of the Interior Seal--those of the screen printer in 1938! Both silk screened prints, with matched numbers, can still be obtained for only $100! And signed by Ranger Doug.... and if this is not enough......I'll donate 25% of this (that's $25) to the National Park Foundation! Happy Holidays! Order here: http://www.rangerdoug.com/yellowstone-limited-edition-poster-set

Great news! Another original of Grand Canyon National Park turned up in Sedona AZ and was donated to the park. It came out of the estate of a Librarian who worked for the park beginning in 1951, about the time the US Mint building was closed and the posters stored there (during WWII) were returned to their parks. This one is a bit faded which puzzled me as other duplicates with similar exposure to light do not show fading. This is the 42 confirmed original and fifth Grand Canyon. Of the 14 designs made, I've found 12 (still missing are Wind Cave and Great Smoky Mountains). One Yosemite turned up 10 years ago but slipped through my fingers (and those of the Library of Congress) so three are missing from the public domain. I'll offer a $5000 reward for each of these with the promise to donate to the NPS archives at Harpers Ferry.

I'm in Jackson Wyoming giving about 16 talks over the next two weeks. Then to Glacier, Pacific NW, Oregon, California and then returning to the Rocky Mountains for my final push ending in Zion in November. It's the Centennial season so my schedule is heating up. Stay tuned to our "Events" button on this blog.

This month we made both the Saturday Evening Post, Time Magazine and Outside Magazine--the NPS Centennial is heating up! I'm currently in Great Smoky Mountain (no talks here) but several to follow as I progress north up the Blue Ridge Parkway to Shenandoah and Washington DC. See our Events button for my schedule as it developes.

Many parks and other venues have asked for a tentative schedule so here it is:
After the March 6-10 Spokane tradeshow, I'll be continuing my my odyssey north up to the Chicago area (April), then east to Acadia and down the Eastern Seaboard parks in May-early June: Civil War sites, Blue Ridge Parkway, Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains. I may visit Everglades again. In mid-June I'm back in Cody, Jackson Hole, Grand Teton (June 18th) and will then work my way west and revisit Sequoia, Yosemite, then northward to Redwoods, Lassen, Crater Lake, Olympic (?), Mt. Rainier, Glacier and rendezvous at Gardiner Mt. for the actual Centennial at Yellowstone North Gate (August 25), then Grand Teton again, Rocky Mountain (Sept 2/3), then SW parks ending at Zion November 11. This is very approximate--so visit the Events section on my Facebook Page. So far I've given 29 talks and 1200 visitors reached.

Both the NPS Centennial and our 14 month exhibition at the Department of the Interior Museum has generated a lot of interest in these posters. The round-the-country quest to find the last two remaining prints and speaking tour has drawn interest by CNN, TIME; the Saturday Evening Post is planning a cover article in their March/April edition....grab an issue if you can. In addition, REI will be including our products in all 145 stores for at least this current year beginning April or May--they call it the "Centennial Collection."

From Santa Fe, I drive east through Tucumcari NM, then down the Texas Panhandle visiting the Alibates Flint Quarry National Monument, Palo Duro State Park, Balmorhea Springs State Park, & Fort Henry. Alpine Texas becomes my home base while I drive down to Big Bend National Park to deliver two more talks (my 28th and 19th). I park the trailer in Austin and am currently Amtraking up to Spokane for our annual APPL tradeshow (NPS Bookstore Tradeshow), March 6-10. See more on our Facebook link and my personal blog here.

I will be giving a two hour talk in Santa Fe at the NPS's Old Santa Fe Trail Building between 4pm - 6pm. This building was built by the CCC. My talk is focuses on the history of the WPA National Park Poster and will feature four originals on display. See you there!

Most, if not all, of our posters will be on exhibit at the US Geological Survey headquarters in Reston VA for the month of June. If you missed the exhibit at the Department of the Interior Museum, this is a good chance to see all the posters in one area.

We participated in the scarf designs for the World Scout Jamboree--National Park themed, of course. Here is a link to the final ceremonies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFoM7jHcUtg
Ranger Doug was a First Class Scout.

I'm going to the Rose Bowl! Live on Green, marketing for the City of Pasadena & their Convention Center has selected my artwork for the official NPS Centennial kick-off. I'm giving three (or more) talks at the Pasadena Convention Center where my 1948 Airstream--highly modified--will be a centerpiece at the Convention Center. Talks at 2pm on Tuesday December 29, 10am on the 30th and again at 1pm on the 31st. Come hear this unique history of National Park art and view five original prints--the largest collection in one place-- equal to the Library of Congress.

Every two years, we donate about 350 prints to the NPCA (National Parks & Conservation Association) to be presented as gifts to members of Congress who support NPS legislation. For a list of our donations, visit our Links section here. NPCA recently writes:
"Dear Doug, Lisa, and Team,
Thank you so much for the beautiful Evergflades prints for our awards! Members of Congress, as always, loved them. Thank you for the wonderful partnership--we look forward to working with you again soon!
Best,
Natalie & NPCA"

Those of us at Ranger Doug's Enterprises, and specifically, Ranger Doug, who lives in Alaska, applaud the bold decision made by President Obama and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to change the name of North America's highest mountain from Mt. McKinley to Denali.
However, this begs the question.....this National Park in the WPA (1935-1943) era carried the name Mount McKinley and therefore, holding true to this history, we've named this poster Mount McKinley as it would have been published at that time.

I begin my 18 month NPS Centennial odyssey in three weeks where I'm presenting my story as told to the Department of the Interior:
Elk Prairie Campground State Park (Redwood State & National Park) August 22 @ 8pm ,
August 24 at Lodgepole Campground, Sequoia @8pm,
Shell Oil (Pipeline) in Sequoia (exclusive),
August 26 Yosemite (TBA),
August 28 @ 6:30pm: Kimball Art Center, Park City Utah (http://www.kimballartcenter.org/art-talk/).
For more details visit our Facebook page where I've listed a calendar of events as they develop.
Hope to meet you all!

Attendance for POSTERity: WPA’s Art Legacy & America’s Public Lands From April 9, 2014 (opening day) through May 29, 2015 (closing day), gallery visitation totaled 15,712. The exhibition’s guestbook provided an opportunity for visitors to leave comments and indicate where they were visiting from. Not everyone signed the guestbook or provided visitation demographics, but of those that did, 44 states, the District of Columbia and 10 foreign countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Dominican Republic, France, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom) were represented. Comments can be viewed here.

Haleakala National Park print is available. It's our 44th design and is a full 10 colors--our most complex design yet. We had hoped it would be available earlier, but we redrew a screen or two and had some ink issues (the EPA has made modern inks less opaque). But it's worth the wait and still modestly priced at only $40. Enjoy!

Our Dinosaur design is now "in hand" and available for the same low $40. As usual, it is a serigraph print featuring the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers. Brian, my co-artist and computer guru was a former ranger there for two years and even has a dinosaur bed named after him. So I let him run with this design--I suggested embedding an encrypted dinosaur in the design--can you find it? From old park brochures, we found "Wall of Bones" so had to use that in an added interpretive panel on Steamboat Rock. While this park is not on the beaten path, it's a strong design and will complement our now 44 park/monument images. Here is a link to some more history of the Douglas Quarry at Dinosaur:http://books.google.com/books?id=qeRM16ndBx4C&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=wpa+preparators+dinosaur+national+monument&source=bl&ots=W4Df4aqaZB&sig=gnmg3JjMa6WO6JQMpc_Y5WBYzXE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5wAjVMOnC8eoyAS8vIKQAQ&ved=0CD8Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=wpa%20preparators%20dinosaur%20national%20monument&f=false

By the 2014 year's end over 11,300 visitors have attended our exhibit "Posterity" at the Department of the Interior Museum. It continues to draw people and their good comments. We hosted the artist's son, Richard Powell which we've posted to our Facebook page. The exhibit will stay open until April of 2015. Attend if you can! Happy Holidays!

The Haleakala Screen print will be available at the end of March. We designed this to complement the Volcanoes print. Its bold colors, morning sunrise and distant ocean vistas make this print unique. And we've added a ranger! Still only $40.

The 2015 Calendar "National Parks--Poster Art of the WPA" produced by Ziga Media is now available but only through Barnes & Noble and Calendars.com. Please note, Ranger Doug does not sell this directly on this website nor in National Parks. Typically these sell out in a few weeks although this years run is the biggest yet due to their increasing popularity. Enjoy!

Our Redwoods image is now available. See it here... I chose the Prairie Creek Visitor Center as the focus, with a "window" style design, and using the See America theme. There are over 100 groves and this park(s) is managed both by the NPS and California State Parks. I think this is a good compromise listing the top ten groves. The PCVC was built by the CCC in 1933 and opened in 1934. We're the only ones making silk screened prints and only charging $40! Enjoy.

Our Redwoods image will be available mid-August. Here is a sneak preview. I chose the Prairie Creek Visitor Center as the focus, with a "window" style design, and using the See America theme. There are over 100 groves and this park(s) is managed both by the NPS and California State Parks. I think this is a good compromise listing the top ten groves. The PCVC was built by the CCC in 1933 and opened in 1934. We're the only ones making silk screened prints and only charging $40! Enjoy.

As promised (but a week late), we are offering for only $75, the two Yellowstone redrawn serigraph reproductions with completely corrected color & parallax--shown here behind the Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell. Besides being signed by Ranger Doug, these also bear the initials of the screen printer "EM" in the DOI seal and are limited to only 1000 copies sold in paired numbered sets only. Celebrate the NPS Centennial! Here is the link.

Celebrate our National Park Centennial coming in 2016! Beginning July 15, we are offering a signed special limited edition of the two Yellowstone National Park prints; the Geyser and Falls in a perfect replication based upon two recently discovered originals which are now on exhibit at the Department of the Interior Museum (pictured at left). We have corrected to the original WPA colors and redrawn the screens exactly including the screenprinter's initials etched into the DOI seal; "EM." These serigraph prints will be a limited edition of 1000 and sold as pairs only (with matching numbers) until the end of 2016. Both for $75.00. We will announce availability on this news site and also on our Facebook Page when we receive them from our screen printers.

An exhibit of all our artwork opened April 8, 2014 and will run for one year at the Department of the Interior Museum in Washington DC. Interior Director Sally Jewell was the first to sign the guest book and received a private tour of the exhibit. If you plan a trip back east, be sure to include this in your plans. Six originals and all or our limited editions are exhibited.

Death Valley (Scotty's Castle) is now available as a serigraph print for $40.00. This is our 40th design and will be included in our Series V note cards along with Arctic Refuge, Badlands, Big Bend, Everglades, Glacier Bay, Joshua Tree and Statue of Liberty. Also available in post cards. On our drawing boards are Dinosaur & Redwood State and National Parks among others.

Six original WPA National Park Serigraph prints recently turned up in a private estate in Southern California making the total of originals now 40 prints! I traveled down from Alaska and examined these and purchased two: Yellowstone Geyser (now 4 known copies) and Yellowstone Falls (the only known). They will eventually be donated to the NPS archives or LOC. They were in remarkably good condition and I will be recoloring and digitizing the screens for the Falls print in the near future. Two of the original 14 prints are still at large--Wind Cave and Great Smoky Mountains--keep on the lookout for these!
Happy Holidays!

I know I'm preaching to the choir, but around every holiday season many counterfeits of our prints show up on the internet--particularly on websites like Etsy, Zazzle, Tripod, Cafe Press, etc. It is very difficult to penetrate these 'shell' websites and much of the offerings are of very cheap quality, yet competing prices.
While five of these historic images are now back in the Library of Congress and thus public domain again, they are 'up for grabs' and are now appearing on every imaginable article--from t-shirts to soap wrappers to neck ties.
Our contemporary series of 26 images are not. Please be aware of what you purchase. Our company, now 20 years in business, is the only source for professionally restored silk-screened WPA national park prints; and we stand 100% behind our products.
Thank you and Happy Holidays!

New Poster: 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Department of Interior Museum. This limited edition of 250 seriagraphs is signed by Doug Leen and Brian Maebius. Proceeds from the sale of the limited edition will be donated to the National Park Service. See it here....

Ranger Doug's entire inventory of screened prints has been selected by the Department of Interior Museum for their permanent collection. A letter of appreciation has been received from the Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, which is posted on our facebook page. We are also working with Interior on an exhibit of all our works which is scheduled to open this summer in Washington DC. We anticipate having three originals in this exhibit along with many photographs of the artist, C. Don Powell.

Big Bend, Everglades and Badlands screened prints have been out for over a year and I've neglected to mention this here in our News section. We've begun using Facebook so visit us there also. We've now received approval for screened prints of Statue of Liberty (beginning our monument series) and Joshua Tree, with Death Valley and Gettysburg on the drawing boards.

With our current screen printer, Scott Corey of Corey Sign, up to his ears printing our nearly 40 park images, we've brought in another printer, Cole Screenprint to help us out as we expand our inventory. While Scott is a third generation "one man shop" Cole is a family of 30 professionals occupying a 25,000 square foot facility in Tacoma Washington. As many of you know, screen printing in poster format is a dying art and we're the only source for screen printed WPA National Poster art. Welcome Cole!

Glacier Bay Poster has just rolled off the screen presses and is now available for $40. It is one of three Alaskan poster images and is also available in post cards and notecards. We've also just finished our Badlands National Monument design due out by mid-April.

After 10 years of increasing internet orders, we’ve decided to upgrade our website once again. We’ve hopefully made it easier to navigate and order products. We now list our poster images both alphabetically and geographically with a spiffy WPA map of the USA. Simply click on the image or location you want and it will take you to that selection of posters or cards. On this page will have all details about the image (size, coloring, card groups, etc.) From there, you can proceed to the shopping cart.
Additionally, we’ve updated our customer comments section, making it easier to post your comments, ask questions or simply to read what others say about us. We’ve added a new section “Honorable Mentions” listing books, movies, gifts, etc. for which our products have been selected.
Having problems finding something? Send us an email.

The Everglades image has been completed and is available in cards. The screened poster will be available sometime late 2011. This poster was created after an on-site visit and indeed the animals in this image are as plentiful as depicted. While this was our first visit, it is now one of our favorite parks!

Everglades Poster now available (December 8, 2011)The Everglades serigraph poster is now available here on our website and also from Everglades National Park. Glacier Bay is next up and should be available end of January 2012.

Everglades National Park (July 27, 2011)The Everglades image has been completed and is available in cards. The screened poster will be available sometime late 2011. This poster was created after an on-site visit and indeed the animals in this image are as plentiful as depicted. While this was our first visit, it is now one of our favorite parks!

Glacier Bay Poster (July 27, 2011)The Glacier Bay image has been completed and is available at this time in cards. The screened poster will be available sometime late 2011.

Calendars (Sept 27 2010)The popular calendar with Ranger Doug's national park images is produced, distributed and sold by Barnes and Noble bookstores with permission of RDE. There is a 2011 calendar available in B&N bookstores. It is not available from Ranger Doug's Enterprises. Thanks for your interest in RDE.

New Paper (December 16 2009)Due to supply issues, we are changing our poster paper to an acid free Neenah Environment 80 Cover in natural white. This paper is slightly more supple, with a different feel, and easier rolling characteristics.

Zion Centennial Limited Edition Now Available (July 7 2009)The Zion Centennial Limited Edition Poster is now available from both Zion National Park and here on our website for $100. This poster has been recolored to the original poster colors with a split fountain screen--where two colors are bled together on one screen making each poster unique. We have added the 100th year silver logo at the bottom and limited this edition to 200. We will continue to publish both the RDE sunset colored version along with an open edition original colored poster for $40.

Three New Designs on the Drawing Boards (July 4, 2009)General Grant (now called Kings Canyon), Saguaro and North Cascades are currently on the drawing boards in various stages of completion. These three will complete the Series IV note card series. Others in that series are Crater Lake, Shenandoah, Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway and Acadia which are currently available as posters. Many parks are experiencing anniversary dates with the Park Service's Centennial coming up in 2016 which is keeping us very busy. Ranger Doug